Quotes About Expectation

Prayer keeps the burden fresh. It keeps our eyes and hearts in an expectant mode.

The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting

Te llaman porvenir porque no vienes nunca. Te llaman: porvenir, y esperan que llegues como un animal manso a comer en su mano. Pero tú permaneces más allá de las horas, agazapado no se sabe dónde. ...Mañana! Y mañana será otro día tranquilo un día como hoy, jueves o martes, cualquier cosa y no eso que esperamos aún, todavía, siempre.

It doesn't matter if what happens next spoils everything; the anticipation itself is always pure.

I loved it and have always loved it best of all, the moment when the lights go down, the curtain glows, you know that something wonderful is going to happen. It doesn't matter if what happens next spoils everything; the anticipation itself is always pure. To travel hopefully is better than to arrive, as Uncle Perry used to say. I always preferred foreplay too.

NU S-AR FI A?TEPTAT CA SUFLETUL LUI SÄ' CUNOASCÄ' ASTFEL DE TRÄ'IRI. […] MELANIE SE SIMÈšEA U?OR VINOVATÄ' CÄ' NU-I PUTEA ÎMPÄ'RT??I SENTIMENTELE CU ACEEA?I INTENSITATE.

Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure.

Hope for the best, expect the worst.

Why should I worry about that until it happens? That would spoil all the joy I feel today.

In the Christian Bible, one turns the page after Malachi and finds Matthew as if only a few days fell between the activities of the prophet and the arrival of Jesus Christ. In reality, however, four hundred "silent years" lie between the Old Testament and New, a time when God did not speak to Israel through His prophets. Yet despite the prophets' silence

If it were in his destiny, which he felt it never would be, to love and be loved, he could imagine a way of love quite different from what he had just seen.

But miracles are not expected and mostly do not happen. Mr. Adams did not turn into a Belton, nor did his daughter. The aboriginal Hogglestock was deep in them; they conceived a slightly suspicious attitude to unknown people, ready to heave half-bricks; but they had also seen and admired another world, and could feel fairly at ease in it when sure that its intentions were good.

Watch and wait, boy. Watch and wait.

As ExtraOrdinary Wizard I am supposed to be mean," Septimus replied with a smile. "It's part of the job description.

Marcia verwachtte Silas terug met haar Beschermring. Jenna en Nicko verwachtten een bericht van Silas. Maxie verwachtte zijn ontbijt. Jongen 412 verwachtte moeilijkheden.

Springtimes have needed you. And there are stars expecting you to notice them.

He had always shuddered at the cruelty of both stories, and in so doing had lost any simple beliefs, which had not, in any case, persisted after childhood, but having thought about the matter he preferred Pandora to Eve. Pandora let loose Discord, but at the bottom of the box discovered Hope. There was thus the relief of something saved, essential to any story, although when hope outlasted expectation the outcome was disillusion. That he was beginning to understand.

I really think if I do not get the diamond tiara my whole trip to London will be quite a failure

We think that we know what life has to offer, but life never fails to surprise us.

That's why I liked the Presbyterian church; we believed in doing things decently and in order. When you went to church, you knew exactly what you were going to get. We didn't want to be surprised or entertained. And, Lord knows, we didn't want anything changed.

There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect. In other words, if you were meeting all these people at a party you might have one frame of reference about them but once they were in a work of literature you might find, much to your surprise, that you had quite another perspective.

Are you happy?" "I think I may be going to be happy." Remember, things do not force, forge or fashion. They fall into place

He expected a blast of Vera's famous sarcasm, but none came. Instead she stopped moving and leaned against a desk. He had a sudden image of an enormous sea-lion stranded on a rock.